A beginner’s guide to programming with Go
Free tutorial
Created by DSC VIT Powered by Google Developers, Angad Sharma
English
What you’ll learn
- Golang
- Backend development
- Software language
- Hosting
- Programming language
- Go
- Gopher
Requirements
- No requirements
Description
Deliverables
This course will give you an understanding of how the Go language works. The following are some of the topics covered in this course:
- Setting up Go
- GOPATH and the Go filestructure
- Datatypes, interfaces, structures and pointers in Go
- Control Statements
- Concurrency
- Parallelism
- Goroutines
- Channels
- API development with Go
- Database connection with Go
- Hosting a Go application on the Heroku cloud
Who this course is for:
- Beginner computer scientists
- Beginner software enthusiasts
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Course content
6 sections • 51 lectures • 3h 23m total lengthCollapse all sections
Introduction6 lectures • 12min
- Who am I01:09
- Introduction to the course03:37
- Installation02:41
- Hello world02:09
- The Go file-structure01:50
- Outro00:29
Data types and control structure10 lectures • 46min
- Declaring and initialization of variables02:57
- Strings03:53
- Arrays03:21
- Pointers03:06
- Structures in Go04:55
- Introduction to interfaces06:48
- Interfaces continued04:38
- Control structures in Go08:41
- Control structures continued07:11
- Outro00:59
Concurrency in Go12 lectures • 54min
- Introduction00:40
- Introduction to concurrency04:58
- Concurrency continued02:06
- Synchronous vs Asynchronous03:47
- Goroutines08:40
- Goroutines continued06:32
- Channels04:10
- Unbuffered channels06:06
- Buffered channels05:16
- A simple ping pong game using concurrency04:41
- Select block06:30
- Outro00:39
Introduction to API development with Go15 lectures • 1hr 16min
- Introduction00:55
- What is an API01:57
- MVC framework01:58
- Creating our first server07:28
- HTTP methods05:52
- Project introduction08:07
- Refactoring our project to MVC08:00
- Connecting to a Database05:44
- Insertion introduction07:57
- Insertion continued05:26
- Reading from the DB06:21
- Querying the DB05:09
- Deleting from the DB06:17
- Project summary04:02
- Outro01:15
API hosting using heroku7 lectures • 14min
- Introduction00:28
- What is hosting02:04
- Hosting pipeline01:50
- Vendoring02:13
- The hosting procedure04:07
- Summary01:11
- Outro01:51
Course Outro1 lecture • 1min
- Outro00:55
